Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

- Knight, Philip

Best Quotes about Mistakes

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

28.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.